Using Grok & Perplexity to Understand Real-time Developments of Operation Sindoor: Just an Observation
From Abhivardhan, our President
Well, my 6-year side interest in Indo-Pacific and geopolitics is helping to understand the use of conversational AI bots here.
So, here's a set of posts on X, where a person called Damien Symon posts satellite images or tracks certain attacks, deployments or restrictions notified amidst the Operation Sindoor 1 and 2 developments.
What irked me the most? Use of Perplexity and Grok chatbots by tagging them in replies.
I am not discussing the merits of demerits of the points shared in these screenshots since what I've shared is merely to reflect upon when and how people ask questions.
There are thousands of funny, relevant and rather useless instances.
But what do we learn from these instances in AI governance, and third-party AI use:
1️⃣ Long time back Bogdan Grigorescu had asked me to analyse Google's paper on Advanced AI Assistants (my analysis: https://www.indicpacific.com/post/the-ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants-explained-reviewed). My take is that while these instances show a sense of anthropomorphising trap, it is now high time that we enforce AI literacy as a legal right, as I had proposed in India's first privately proposed AI law, aiact.in
2️⃣ Why? The "trust but verify" principle stands. We have seen instances in the case of how stakeholders in the Manipur and Punjab High Courts have fell into the anthropomorphising trap (concept proposed by Subbarao Kambhampati) - which is to say - use AI tools as if they are human-attributing. An Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was misled by citing fake AI-made up case laws. Let's not forget.
3️⃣ The chatbots tagged for responses expected in social media (microblogging) platforms are rather an interesting cocktail of recommendation algorithms driving GenAI chatbots. And since XAI and Perplexity are training these chatbots out of X's data, maybe all stakeholders should be made aware how to use these tools.
P.S.: I have my support to the Government of India, and I am not discussing or questioning actions undertaken by the valiant Indian Armed Forces under Operation Sindoor. This is a mere educative post, so please do not misconstrue it to be something else entirely.